Our road trip to Wales start with arrival to Cardiff Central Station. It's a two hours train ride from London's Paddington Station.
We drove from Cardiff heading north on the motorway M4 towards Swansea for a quick stop to check out the lighthouse at the cove and continue onwards to Carreg Castle at Carmenthenshire.
As its autum, it's was dark when we arrive at the castle ground so unable to gain entry.
We continue our journey towards Caernafon, the roads were in complete darkness in this cold and wet autumn night. It's gets narrow and winding in certain stretches as we drove through several towns or villages that looks totally deserted. There were also many road works along the road which slowed down our journey.
Finally, in about three hours we were relieved to have reached our destination at Caernafon. The B&B owners were kind enough to wait up for us as they retired early for the night.
A quick walk around town in our search for food, we stumbles on the only place that's still open at such odd hours. The Bengal Spices, Indian delicacies. The food were amazingly tasty and good.
Exhausted, we slept like log for the night.
Next morning after an amazing traditional English breakfast at the B&B that is located within the Castle wall, we explored the famous castle ground.
Caernafon was also known as The Royal Town in North Wales. Due to its strategic location at a river mount, the port flourish as the main transport hub for North Wales. The Caernafon Castle was built by England's King Edward 1 after his successful conquest of the town from the Wales ruler. This castle symbolises England's initial invasion on Wales.
The castle falls to a state of ruins after a few decade of neglect.
Today the castle and the surrounding town is in the UNESCO World Heritage list.
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